If you want to say that the Silicon Valley bigwigs have any common hobbies, it must be obsessed with "immortality"...
A few days ago, MIT Technology Review reported that Sam Altman, the popular fried chicken in Silicon Valley and the "father of ChatGPT", is also a hardcore health enthusiast.
Although he is only 37 years old, Altman has embarked on an "anti-aging" campaign by taking a common diabetes drug that has been popular in Silicon Valley for years. However, professionals said that its "anti-aging effect" has not been proven, and non-diabetic patients may also bring side effects, ordinary people should still follow the doctor's advice not blindly.
In addition to taking medicine, Altman also has some less outrageous "regimens", such as avoiding particularly spicy foods, drinking protein shakes, lifting weights three times a week, and sleeping in a "cold, dark, quiet room." In addition to his daily commitment to wellness, he has invested $180 million in biotech company Retro Biosciences to develop death-delaying therapies.
In Silicon Valley, there are many people like Altman. Not long ago, 45-year-old technology billionaire Bryan Johnson was also popular because of his obsession with "rejuvenation".
In order to "return" to the age of 18, he spends $2 million a year to maintain his body, including not limited to getting up at five o'clock to exercise, a vegan diet to control calories (it is said that the body fat rate was once as low as 3%, which threatens the healthy functioning of the heart), and all-round monitoring of more than 70 organs - even sleeping must be connected to a machine to monitor the lower body...
For this kind of crazy playful self-discipline, the comment area exploded, and some people threw themselves to the ground, and some people called it "Silicon Valley version of "American Psycho"~
In the pursuit of "immortality", the top waves of not bad money do not lose the waves, and they are rolled up early in the morning, such as Bezos and Zuckerberg are trying to find the youth code from cell research~
While saying that "anti-aging is not as good as having children, it is enough to live to 100 years old (there are Versailles)", while jumping out of the shackles of the flesh and pursuing "digital immortality", there is a sense of déjà vu of sci-fi films shining into reality.
Outside of Silicon Valley, the top trenches are also fighting hard in their pursuit of longevity. 95-year-old Hong Kong tycoon Lee Shau Kee once said that if he could give him 30 more years of youth, he would be willing to pay 100 billion. Li Ka-shing, who is the same age as him, spent 23 years laying out the big health and pharmaceutical industry, and smashed tens of billions in order to find the "elixir of immortality".
Even on this basis, many sensational "urban legends" have been developed, such as "Rockefeller for 6 hearts to continue life", "Silicon Valley vampires are keen to change blood", and the "medical miracle" is staged in minutes, which is very bizarre to hear.
But I have to say that the top rich people who are "greedy for life and afraid of death" have spared no effort in order to rejuvenate and continue their lives, and the painting style is simply rolled out of the sky, and today Lord Fan will take an inventory of a wave~
Extreme self-discipline
Control your mouth and step forward, high-tech version of ascetics
In order to prolong life and maintain physical and mental vitality, most of the rich are very self-disciplined in eating and living.
For example, Guo Henian, Li Shaoji, Li Ka-shing, three 90+ senior top trenches, the secret of longevity benefits from developed medical conditions, but also inseparable from healthy living habits. Especially the 95-year-old Li Ka-shing, who is still energetic, has lived a very self-disciplined life for many years: the first thing he does when he gets up every morning is exercise, he likes to play golf when he is young, and he does stretching at home when he is older.
The so-called "a knife on the head of the color character", Li Chaoren is almost a gossip insulator, and in his later years, he was a confidante of Zhou Kaixuan, and his painting style was quite "pure and unwanted".
The diet is also very modest: almost do not drink, and rarely socialize, it is said that the most eaten for dinner is green vegetables and tofu~
American billionaire David Howard Murdoch, who has adhered to pescatarian since 1985, drinks smoothies two to three times a day with as many as twenty fruits and vegetables; Eat fish, seafood, egg whites, legumes, and nuts while avoiding dairy, poultry, and red meat, and avoiding alcohol, processed sugar, salt, and vitamin supplements.
Lao Mo said that he wanted to "eat blueberries until he was 125 years old", born in April 1923, he will turn 100 years old in one month, and planting grass is convincing~
Compared with the two predecessors, the 45-year-old Silicon Valley billionaire Bryan mentioned at the beginning seems to be a little overdone, and he has become a high-tech version of the ascetic at a young age, and he will not give up until he takes the true scripture of rejuvenation.
△ Wujing, is that you?
This self-made founding generation, when he was young, he exchanged his life for money, and worked hard for a time so depressed that he wanted to commit suicide; After achieving fame, he began to exchange money for his life, and formulated a "Blueprint Plan" that was extremely strict (changing) (state), with the goal of returning the body's functions to the state of 18 years old.
In order to complete this seemingly impossible task, Bryan not only assembled a medical team of more than thirty people, but also built a professional medical room at home to facilitate monitoring at any time, and it costs $2 million a year on body maintenance alone, from hair strands to nails (u1s1, at first glance a bit like an artificial human) ~
While burning money frantically, he also strictly controls his diet and living. Get up earlier than the big red rooster, start to measure body data on the scale before dawn at five o'clock, and then take health supplements on an empty stomach, the system will generate a series of data through meditation and phototherapy, and score the system ↓
Bryan also needed to stick to a vegan diet (keeping calories strictly in 1977), train regularly for one hour a day, exercise at high intensity three times a week, fall asleep at the same time every night, and wear goggles for two hours before bed to "block blue light."
Most importantly, vital signs and biochemical indicators need to be constantly monitored through a series of tests such as blood tests, MRIs, ultrasounds, and colonoscopy.
More than 70 kinds of organs on the body did not fall, more than 30,000 pictures of the intestines alone were taken, and even sleeping would be connected to the machine to monitor the situation of the "little brother" all night...
The process is extremely cumbersome, and the results are obvious, time not only freezes on him, but also seems to have a tendency to reverse growth.
Bryan's team of doctors said that he successfully reversed the overall biological age by 5 years in two years, and now has a 37-year-old heart, 28-year-old skin, 18-year-old lung capacity and physical strength, and gums are only 17 years old, and this is just the beginning~
Crazy money-burning type
Bet on "immortality" medicine and develop longevity technology
In addition to self-discipline, burning money is also the most common operation for trenches to rejuvenate and rejuvenate, after all, the last thing they lack is money, if you can bribe death with money, why not?
In ancient times, there were emperors who practiced the elixir of immortality, and now there are rich people who throw money at the "elixir of immortality". Google technical director Ray Kurzweil not only spends $20,000 a day on 250 pills, but also predicts that "mankind will achieve immortality by 2029 and immortality in 2045."
Although it sounds very unreliable, given the bull's 80% prediction accuracy in the past, top trenches such as Bill Gates and Buffett have voted with money, rather buy wrong than miss it. After all, Gates said as early as 2013 when answering questions from netizens online that what has not yet been completed on his bucket list is "immortal", can he not desperately burn money to achieve it~
Also betting wildly, Bezos and Zuckerberg. As early as 10 years ago, Bezos invested $116 million in the development of "scavenging of aging cells" technology for biotech company Unity. In the first two years, he spent $3 billion to create the Alots Biolab, and recruited global scientific bulls to develop cell reprogramming technology for him, with the goal of ending aging and fighting death.
Bezos frantically burned money to invest in the arrogant operation of anti-aging companies, and also attracted a mad meal from Musk, saying that if the money burned did not work, Bezos was afraid that even death would be sued~
Wait！ In other words, isn't Bezos's anti-aging secret Sanchez?
Back to the point. Don't look at Zuckerberg young, his obsession with immortality is not inferior to that of older rich people. He spoke to the then living Hawking at a Facebook event in 2015, and when asked the answer to the biggest question he wanted to know most about science, he went straight to the point - how can humans be immortalized?
In order to find the answer, the Zuckerbergs invested $3 billion to establish the BioHub Biocenter Institute, pinning their hopes on mapping the human "cell map"~
The domestic rich are not left behind, Li Ka-shing, who is known for his simple personality, "wore a pair of glasses for more than ten years", "wore a suit for many years and was reluctant to throw it", "Citizen wore hundreds of dollars"... Life is all kinds of unpretentious, but in the pursuit of "immortality", throwing money is spared, not only cooperating with Zheng Yutong to invest 40 billion yuan to create a Chinese medicine port↓
Invested 200 million yuan to establish Hutchison Pharmaceutical, invested in Tongrentang, and also funded life science research in a large amount, and donated 50 million US dollars to the University of California to study genetic science and explore "rejuvenation".
It is he who spends 1.56 million yuan a year to eat "Yannian Dan", and after lamenting that after eating "like a baby born after the age of 20", he simply directly invested 200 million yuan for development and sales.
It is difficult to say whether heavy money can buy rejuvenation miracle medicine, but it can indeed forcibly continue life at critical moments.
The gambling king is a typical example of forced life continuation, at the age of 87, he suffered a stroke and became critically ill, and he had to take brain injections every day to continue his life, and it is said that one injection will get 860,000. At that time, the He family chartered two floors of Building No. 37 of the Inpatient Department of Sanagium and Hospital and built the mansion No. 1 Repulse Bay Road into a six-star private hospital, with a medical team providing 24-hour uninterrupted care.
During this period, the gambling king underwent three brain surgeries, as well as Parkinson's disease, kidney failure, five times of critical illness, 1.5 billion medical expenses in 11 years is astronomical for ordinary people, and it is indeed nothing compared with his hundreds of billions of net worth. Although there is hope in life, but rich as a gambling king, it is difficult to talk about the quality of life in the process of forcibly continuing life, which is somewhat embarrassing~
Appalling type
Illegal drug injection, change heart for blood to preserve youth
In order to rejuvenate and continue their lives, there are many rich people who have gone the wrong way. Especially in Silicon Valley, "life extension science is a common obsession", and many of the operations of the rich in the tech industry are appalling.
Sergi Fargate, founder of mirror artificial intelligence company Mirror AI, turned himself into a walking medicine jar in order to "live forever", swallowing a bunch of pills every day, including many illegal drugs, and injecting himself with a synthetic human growth hormone to rejuvenate "new life" from the inside out.
Alan Trevik, CEO of the biological company, is also a representative of injection addiction, once injected a cheap gene agent developed by his own company and not tested and approved on the spot at the biohacking conference, and the rejuvenation effect was not seen, but he was found drowning in the spa for two months, with a bunch of medicine bottles floating around...
Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley investor known as the "Silicon Valley Vampire", not only takes growth hormone drugs for a long time in order to fight aging↓
There are even legends that he "spends $40000 a quarter to get fresh blood from an 18-year-old" ... The blood exchange bridge in the fourth season of the American drama "Silicon Valley" is considered to be satirizing Peter · Thiel.
△ "Silicon Valley" stills
The rumor that is even more outrageous than "blood rejuvenation" is that David Rockefeller "changed six hearts for ten years". It is said that in order to have an "immortal body", Rockefeller "underwent 6 heart transplants and 2 kidney transplants at a cost of $300 million, and was still undergoing heart exchange surgery at the age of 99."
However, this has become an urban legend, some doctors said that it is all based on false rumors, if the human body can withstand this kind of toss, it is really a medical miracle, a person can receive two transplants in a lifetime is already rare in the world.
Of course, in reality, there are indeed people who continue to live by changing hearts, but they change "pig hearts". Early last year, Bennett, a 57-year-old wealthy American who was hospitalized with heart failure, has been relying on ECMO to stay alive. He was deemed ineligible for an artificial heart pump because of his arrhythmia, so he underwent the world's first pig heart transplant.
It's no ordinary pig heart, and the University of Maryland Medical Center says they performed 10 unique gene edits in donor pigs, including six genes from humans. Bennett successfully survived for 2 months after surgery, but in the end, he did not defy the laws of nature.
Sci-fi advanced type
Freeze the body, consciousness is immortal
In order to live forever, the rich have also moved sci-fi films to reality, full of black technology.
Many science fiction films have a bridge of "immortality" by freezing technology, and the first frozen person on Earth on the earth in reality is American billionaire James Bedford. Suffering from cancer, he decided to hand over his body to a cryogenic company in 1967 and store the treated body in a liquid nitrogen stainless steel device at -196°C.
And made an agreement with the other party to awaken and revive him after 50 years (2017). However, as early as the early 90s of the last century, James's body had problems, due to improper preservation, high temperature appeared in the liquid nitrogen preservation device, scars appeared on his chest and legs, and the color of his body also changed, until now James has not been awakened, and the resurrection is far away...
There are also many rich people who simply jump out of the shackles of the flesh and pursue the immortality of consciousness. For example, after Shanda's founder, Chen Tianqiao, retired from illness (around 2005), he began to think about life and death. Unlike the rich people in Silicon Valley, Chen Tianqiao believes that death cannot be cured, and "the way to cure death is to learn to accept death", so he chose the track of "consciousness eternal life".
In his view: "The human flesh will not be our limit, as long as I have my brain in one place, the possibility of eternal life is also completely present." Spending about $1 billion over the years to fund neuroscience research is very Buddhist about the results: "Failures in the lab happen every day, but they are also valuable, and science itself allows failure." ”
Russia's super-rich Dmitry · Itskov was more radical, and in order to realize the immortal plan, he founded the "2045 Initiative" in 2011 and set an ambitious goal - hoping to create an artificial brain with a human personality by 2035, install it on a robot like Avatar, and realize a new human being in the form of robots or holograms.
In 2016, the BBC also filmed the documentary "The Immortal" with Dmitry as the protagonist, and he said in an interview with the BBC, "In the next 30 years, I will make sure that we can all live forever." I am 100% convinced that this will happen, otherwise I would not have started this work. Dmitry hopes that through this research, human life can be extended and even immortality, where people can upload their consciousness to robots before dying and then live indefinitely.
However, the scientific community still doubts whether the complexity of the human brain can be replicated in machines, and the holographic avatars mentioned in the initiative require extremely high technical requirements. Although there is a long way to go, the rich have not stopped pursuing "consciousness immortality".
The Iron Man in the comic book "Heart of Steel" has become an AI form
Last July, Musk tweeted that he had uploaded his brain to the cloud and talked to a virtual version of it↓
This "crazy Martian" has been committed to expanding the space-time dimension of human existence, new project brain-computer interface research, can also dock with the "meta-universe", go to the virtual world to open a second or even endless life~
Well, the rich people are crazy about the topic of "immortality" and will talk about this today. In fact, there are also rich people who live long without rolls, like 92-year-old Buffett who has a lifetime of Coke with McDonald's, and said that the secret of longevity is to eat peanut candy...
But he and his 99-year-old friend Charlie Munger believe that the real secret to longevity is to "do the things that make you happy every day", forget about unhappy things, and work with people you like.
Munger also said, "Don't be resentful, don't be jealous, don't be extravagant, be optimistic in the face of difficulties, and deal with reliable people", and he became happy because he did this.
In fact, for us ordinary people, living every day with a healthy lifestyle and mentality is also the most important thing, the tossing of the rich or just look at it, the most important thing to be a person is to be happy.
What do you think about the health competition of the big guys, let's talk about it in the comment area~
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